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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-08
THOMAS BOWLING. Auctiones..
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

FOR Observation-Disclosures
EOR sALE--MEAT BLOCKS. WILLIAM A. TOR
II REY, 1401 9th ct. NV, cor. o. fS-1ws
EOR SALE "A FINE THRRE-YEAR-OLD COLT,
well broke 70 harness, kind and gentle Not having
need OF II, viii sell cheap. ALEX s. CLARKE It'll
and Boundary. fS-Sts
EfOR SALE-ROAN MARE, PERFECTLY SOUND,
H. guaranteed to work in single or double harness
suitable Tor business wagon Can be seen at 1209
at. NV. f8-3t
EoR sALE-PRICE LIST OF PURE WINES.
CALIFORNIA VINES, IMPORTED WINES
Sweet Catawba... 90c. gal full assortment Of Me-
Dry SOC. IS doc, ST. Julien Margaux
Cal. Claret @l.00 and other C}arets; Iau-
Old Zinfandel. .1.50 benheimer, Niersteimer
California Hook. Loo and other Rhefn Wines
Port.......l.50 Ports, Sherries, Bran
sherry. 80 dies, Tom and Holland
Brandy. 400 Gin; Chartreuse, Maras-
Angellca LIS chino and other Cordials
Jamaica and st. Croix
Rum.
No liquors by the glass. Telephone call 114-2.
Goods delivered free. II. A. SELIGSON,
Wholesale Wines and Liquors,
LOO Pennsylvania ave. NV
Agent for "Trtmble" Rye and Fine Old Sour Nash
Whistles. r.
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FOR SALE-HOUSES.
N0RTuwESr

NORTHWEST.
1871 ID 81. Z. h., 6r. go, 900
Il 40, 1145 18th ST.
- J: p B 81 81 I b h: .7r ], EGG Egg
433 10 AL Prsther's
alley, b. b., 4r.....4. 500
io5 to All Bars all,
b.h-, 4rs. 600
40 Q St, b.h., Or. 8, 500
1516 10th st. 4. h..
sa 3 to 1854 p st, i. '''"
h. 5rs ..-.........3, 500
1s02. 1904 L St, b.h-, =
1874. i64i 4th st, / b. 800
lib III ,'' i23a Madison i''OV
St.. h., 4rs- 800
Al, t33 Ridge sd, I.
b., ors. 500
110e 10th st.. i. h.,
1914 i''iii 10th ST. i,h. .--'ooO
zoos X ST., f.h., Ar. i 500
1919 18th ST., f. b., ooo
or-....-..-.--...----l ,oUO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-08

I,oR sALE-3a3 AND s25 1ITH ST Sc; $1,000
II each JOHN K BEALL h CO, 1921 f st. 3sSO-Im
L>OR SAI.E-CHEAP-l65,OOO FEET OF LAND,
I'm = improved by 2story manssrd 11-room frame
18th st. extended or Meridian and New Jersey ayes
Will intersect. Only 15c, per foot Easy terms.
5a21-lm j. X. HEREFORD, 1925 at
EOR SALE-CHEAP-GOOD BUSINESS PROP
Il erty on north side Pennsylvania ave-, near 18th
ST.: also corner goth and Pennsylyanis ave. J. r
HEREFORD, 14234 st. ja27-2W
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INOR SALE-pARTIES CONTEMPLATING HOUSE,
Keeping can hear Of opportunity to purchase
everything complete for S175. Address A. B. p, Star
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
A Curlons PronnneiatInn.

You cite The remarkable instance of the
family name of Enroughty being called
Darby says a letter to the New York
Poss. As a native of Henrico county,
Virginia, in which the Enroughty fami-
lies have lived for generations can give
YOU the local explanation of the anomaly.
1t is relating that the first Enroughty
who settled in Henrico county became SO
incensed and resentful at the mispronun-
citation Of his surname-some calling 1t
Enrufty. others EnroOty, and others
again Enrorty-that he insisted, when
ever spoken to, that he should be called
'sDarby.p 1t is not stated that he told,
or was aware Of the reason chat his fam
ily belonged to the sect called Derbyitesl
mentioned by the learned divine to whom
you refer. Whatever the origin OF
DARBY" the family has ever been tena-
cious Of the name of Enroughty and
equally tenacious of the name of Darby, "
and If a stranger should happen TO call
any of them by any other name than by
the last given, he would Immediately be
requested to say Darby In all writ
ing, bank accounts and pool-books-in-
deed, wherever it is necessary to write
the true name-it is spelled Enroughty,
but invariably pronounced Darby We
read in official reports of the operations
of Grants and Lees armies below Rich
mond, of ''the battle of Darbytown, but,
in truth, the locality was Enroughty-
town.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
The oaeen Of Rags.

Speaking Of the poor, one Of tn,
queerest figures in New York IS that Of a
woman who never wears ANYTHING but
rags, but such a wild and wonderful as
sortmcnt Of them that she is really pict
uresque. She is generally known in the
quarters she frequents as Crazy Kate, but
Is sometimes called the Queen Of Rag.
for a change Never had the most gor-
aeous rainbow more colors than thi,
queer creature combines in her ragged
raiment. tried 10 count them the last
time / saw her, but had to give it up.
From the mass Of rags on her headi
10 the iattered fringe of rags at he
heels, she was peranlbulating kaleido
scope. 80 far as variations OF color went.
She gathers the rags wherever they can
be found. often fishing them out OF the
cutters. and as she never attempts to
clean them. the amount of dirt she
carries about in her daily wandering.
may be imagined She not only clothes
herself with rags, but wears layer upon
LAYER Of them, reefed and tucked and
strung around her tall She is swathed like
a mummy. One Of the worst tenements
IN new I Alh u q RAllllHE tllAtu Alit
Barracks, near the Battery. Crazy
Kate is one OF its tenants. She has a
room in it. and the room contains hardly
ANYTHING but rags and rotten apples.
Next to her mania for rags is passion for
gathering rotten apples and going
through the form Of peddling them at
the downtown docks, and sometimes in
the shipping Offices and Others. Nobody
ever buys her apples, but a great many
who know her oddities give her niekels
and dimes, Of which, it is said. she takes
such good care, Notwithstanding the bee
IN her bonnet. that she has quite little
store laid By for a rainy day. There was
a romantic sicry told about her some
wears ago. to the effect that, being in
love with a sailor boy who went to sea
and never came back, she lost her mind
81 consequence. but II is not accepted in
the Barracks where the general opin-
ion is that Crazy Kate was born that way
She is an odd creature certainly, but
quite harmless. the Barracks people
say.-Nsc York Litter.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
Appearance of Motion in Paintings.

The painter is also able to represent
motion by taking advantage of the I'M
conscious working of cur preconceived
impressions. Looking at mastery
marine landscape in the National Gallery
at Berlin one day, l could almost see the
ship rising and falling upon the waves,
and the waves themselves seemed to be
in motion as they swelled and swept by
the vessel. The painter had seized
single instant in the succession, and had
so represented it as to call out the idea
OF consecutiveness. The question arises,
How is the artist to illustrate motion, as
he often has to do, say in such case as
that OF rapidly turning wheel, in which
we caaat>no instant distinguish the
single spokes, but sec only a confusion OF
i..,sg linesi 1t is clearly impossible for
hi -t--g;ve the exact appearance of
motion. He can only seize a given
instant or stage, and so manage that it
shall represent itself as the effect Of the
preceding stage and the cause of the fol-
lowing one: A sword blow must be rep
resented at decisive point, not at a
stage in the descent of the weapon. else
the illusion will be destroyed; a pendu-
lum in motion, not at the bottom of its
course, where it would seem to be at
rest. In painting n galloping horse, no
stage of the exact motion is reproduced.
The instantaneous photographs have
demonstrated that; and also that, if the
artist should attempt a reproduction of
the kind, he would give any but the rf-
feet desired. He makes more pleas
ing and probable picture, having, how
ever. no counterpart in nature, IN which
he does no violence to her, but, as Schil-
Ter has said, increases the nature that
is in nature -Podllar Science Monthly.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22

Very high straight collars arc seen upon
the new dresses.
Maize is asserting its claims to be con
siaered fashionable color.
Ladies' shoes must match in tint the
prevailing color Of the gown.
The sailor styles are reported in many
garments for both boys and girls.
Velvet is used either plain or in soft,
irregular folds on the brims of round
hats.
Bows Of satin or MORE ribbon dec
crate the tips and handles Of dressy par
ssols.
surah An;oiuette is a new fabric for
light mourning, woven with heavy
twill
A new idea in black lace dressesi is that
Of using Scotch plaid silk for the under
skirt
satin finished, gros grain. gauze and
taiieia ribbons are much used in mil
linery.
It is said that the tan shades Of gloves
have lost their popularity, and that cool
grays are in favor.
Many Of tho new parasols are in odd
shapes, and have handles nearly long
enough foralpenstocks.
Thin, transparent materials are made
up with full gathered corsages and
sieeEes to match, whether for basques or
polonaises.
zone Of the pre.siest ideas in millinery
sa u rr1. e
quillings Of tulle in white or color. 1t is
exquisitely soft in effect.
Combinations Of black and white silk
arc fashionable thus summer. and many
entire dresses Of checked or striped black
and white silk will be worn.
Brussels net is OF such substantial
wear that it is better liked for the gauze
bonnets than tulle. but point d'csprit net
Is prettier than any other fabric Tor this
purpose.
Many rows Of machine stitching are
used as a finish upon Summer camcl's
hair ard cashmere dresses, in a way for
merry used exclusively upon tailor gowns
Of heavy cloth.
Hoods are used upon garments OF every
style \ novelty IN this line are the
dsinty lace hoods in monk style. which
are arranged to lie fatty on the back Of
elegant lace garments.
Some Of the summer costumes Of light
materials have the bodice 50 cut as to
expose n small portion Of the throat in
front, and with tapping surplice fronts
OILERS have a square-cut front with
plated chcmisette Of lace or crepe lisse.
Three breadihs Of silk ere used for the
back OF skirts, drapery and lower skirt
being thus combined. These breadths
are cut half yard longer than the foun-
dation skirt, and there ara an endless va
riety Of ways Of arranging the surplus
length at the top.
A new trimming is composed Of six or
seven rows Of extremely narrow ribbon.
known as baby ribbon. which are caught
together by loops Of gilt thread and
edged with loops Of feather-edgeG nib
bon, one fourth Of an inch wide White |
satin ribbon with links Of gilt thread is
A especially effective combination.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
Goilo the Food of the canary-IsIander.

have alluded to the excellent bodily
development and proportions of the
modern Canarians, and to the testimony
/ left by the old ehroniclers to the still fine
characteristics of the ancient Guanches,
who are indeed described as marvels of
bodily strength, beauty and agility, be-
eaHse these facts have an important bear
ing on the question of their food. As
there can be no such bodily growth,
strength and activity, as is described as
belonging to these people, without su-
perior nourishment, it follows that the
food used by the Guanches, and adopted
and still almost exclusively used by the
present inhabitants, must be highly nu-
tritious.
This article, so evidently important, is
the gofO, named at the head of this paper
There is nothing mysterious about it,
for goio is simply flour made from any
Of the cereals by parching or roasting
before grinding. The Guanches may
have roasted their wheat barley, etc, by
the ready method of first heating stones,
on which or among which the grain was
afterward placed As TO that there are
no precise accounts, but woll-shaped
grinding stones are plentifully preserved.
At present gotio is prepared by roasting
the grain in a broad, shallow earthen
dish, over charcoal-tire. 1t is kept
constantly stirred, to prevent burning.
One can hardly pass through a vii
lage or hamlet without witnessing
some stage of the preparation
of gofio. The grain is first care
fully picked over and all impurities re-
moved. The processes frequently take
place in front of or just within the al
ways-open door, giving the traveller am
pie opportunity to see all steps of the
preparation. The grinding is done at the
wind-mills, which abound everywhere.
The roasted grain is ground to very fine
flour, when it becomes gofio. After grind
ing it is ready for immediate use. When
it is to be eaten, milk, soup, or any suit
able fluid, may be mixed with it-any-
thing, in fact, to give it sufficient con
sistency to be conveyed INTO the mouth.
Being already cooked, it requires no fur
Their preparation before eating.
Ultimately maize was introduced into
the islands. and soon BECAME an article of
general cultivation, particularly on the
Island of Grand Canary, where gofio from
it is the staple article of food for the la
boring population, as that from wheat or
wheat mixed with maize is in Teneriffe,
wheat being more largely grown in the
latter island.-Popular Science Monthly.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
Murderons Millinery.

A lady told me the other day painful
little incident relating to wearing birds
on your bonnets and hats. / will try to
give her own words. She said:
.'e.,e- day -e',r- ,,'sstszssaisizt infise ser
vice. that when he was in Florence a
lady came to him and said: DO come
with me and hear those birds sing, OH
such mournful notesr There was room
full Of birds in very small cages, and
these birds were all blind; they had then
eyes put out. In the night the owners
take them outside the city and hang the
cages in trees. The trees are then all
smearcd with tar. These birds keep up
their pitiful singing, and other birds are
attracted 10 the cages and arc stuck on
the r, and then they are caught and
their eyes put out. And these birds arc
killed and sent to America for ladies to
wear on their bonnets.
and locked around the congrega-
ton to see what ladies had birds on their
bonnets, and l was glad there was none
on mine, and don't think l can ever
wear bird again. - Wide A,eake.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
Cadet Hops at West Point.

On hop nights the camp is a scene o
busting activity after the return from
supper; cadets are preparing for the hop
filling out the hop cards of their fail
partners, and reporting their departure
to the top, or 'on permit" to the first
sergeants.
''Ah, Delangel going to the hop to
nightln asks Fred Arden, as he meets
his friend coming from the adjutant':
tent with fresh hop card.
well, rather" replies Delange, wav-
ing his card
Take dance on this card for nc
with lovely girl, " urges Fred.
"Can she dancer" cautiously inquiries
Delange.
"Um-ah, 1 don't know; I never
danced with her; but she's a niece of my
Congressman, and wish her to have a
good time, - said polite Fred.
whats her namel' asks wary De
lange."
Miss Limber.n
"Whew! She ought to dance give me
the seventh, will you?" And SO the
cards are filed out-.St Nicholas.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
A Costly Time.Piece.

The handsome Mexican onyx cloch
which stands in the reception room OF
the city residence of George W. Childs,
at the southeast eornor of Twenty-second
and Walnut streets, says the Philadelphis
Record, has been much admired by the
thousands of visitors to that hosIitabls
mansion, few of whom, probably, know
the history of the expensive time-keeper,
which is recalled by the death of Ii
Grand Lockwood in New York. During
the Paris Exposition of 1867 Mr.. Lock
wood, who was a visitor, became
especially enamored OF this strilSingly
beautiful clock, whose base, four feet in
height, supported a silver statuctte Of
Liberty swinging from one hand apendu-
lum. Mr.. Lockwood. who was then very
wealthy, determined to own this clock,
and in the auction of exhibited articles
bought it, though the Gar of all the
Russians, TO whom time was then OF
moment, was a competitor in the bidding.
Safely transported to Norwalk, Conn,
Mr. Lockwood's home, the costly time
piece was much admired by visitors to
Mr.. Lockwood's house, and by none more
than Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Wilds.
Several years later Mr.. Lockwood's house
and its many articles of virtue were
offered for sale, and, at the suggestion
Of his good wife, Mr.. Childs determined
to buy this clock. Arrived at the sale,
and the dock put up, Mr.. Childs' first
bid was s., 600. \ stranger sitting
Immediately behind him raised that
$500. Mr.. Childs saw the raise and
raised back $500, when the astounded
stranger, reaching forward, remarked:
''Sir, come from 4. T. Stewart with
orders TO get that clock, and | must have
it.
Il don't care if you came from
Golconda," was the reply of the Phila-
delphian, and he kept raising tho bid OF
his opponent, much TO the auctioneer's
satisfaction, until he had offered So, 500,
at which figure Stewards man weakened.
Mr.. Childs removed the time-keeper to
his city residence, where it now ticks
and tells that time is flying.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
rhe Picnic. the BenutifuI Picnic.

Now let us to the woodland HE, where
trees their verdure wrap, for spring no
longer fingers in old burly winters lap.
In picnic garb wen amble forth and sit
beneath the trees, and have our hides all
chopped and hacked with stings Of bum
bic bees Wen gaiiy don our linen
coats, and thin seersucker pants, and sit
beside the gurgling stream, while DER us
crawl the ants. Wen swallow picnic
lemonade, to moisten down our grub,
which people make by soaking one
cheap lemon in tub The guileless
lemon we shall cat, devour the clammy pie,
and sit on bowls Of ,ustard while a tear
bedims our eye. Wen tip the mustard
in the jam, the pepper in the tea, and
try with all our might to show that we
are filed with glee. Then let us to the
picnic HE, our basket in our hand, and
homewara come filed up with woe and
leaves and dust aud sand-AtchiAsoa
lhas. GLIB.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
The Age of Almanaes.

The history of written almanacs dates
back to the second century of the Christ
tain era. The Greeks at Alexandria, in
the time of Ptolemy QO0-150 A D.,
constructed almanacs. Prior to the writ
ten almanac of the Greeks there were cal
endars or primitive almanacs. One Of
them was found at Pompeii cut upon a
square block of marble, upon each side
of which three months were registered in
perpendicular columns, each headed by
the proper sign OF zodiac. There is in
the Savilian Library at Oxford, England,
a manuscript copy of an almanac pub
lished in the year 1900 A. D., but the first
almanac positively known to have been
published in England was "Sheapheard' S
Kalendar,n translated from the French
and printed by Richard Payson, in 1895.
-Amerioan BooEmaker.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22

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Address VVORT.E.S DySpl
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
A Sugar Estate, Island of Jamaica.

The estates to-day says a correspondent
of the New York Commercial Adrertiser,
are conducted by a manager, who "out
Of crop looks after the cultivation of the
cane, and makes preparation for the com
ing crop. He has under him from one TO
six bOokkeepers, according TO the size Of
the estate. The name "bookkeeper'' is
virtually a misnomer He certainly has
to keep few lists, and to enter them up
in the estates books weekly, but his
principal work is to be out constantly.
looking after the laborers, checking all
the hands, and seeing that the work is
done In crop time the 'lield book
keepers for the crop continue the same
duties; but one bookkeeper is made dis
tiller,1 and placed in charge of the still
house, while another takes charge of the
"boiling house. and his duty is to pre-
vent theft as muchas possible. The sugar
cane juice is brought here by cutters from
the mill, boiled TO sugar in shallow copper
pans, and run into coolers to solidify
and crystalize. Thence the sugar is car
ried into hogsheads, and is sent TO the
wharf for shipment or island consump-
tAou.to tliI tdst may uc. lit bophhNtltI
has to be very smart who can prevent
stealing; in fact, it is an impossibility
A manager had missed large quantity
OF sugar from some open hogsheads in the
curing house, He said nothing, but
set several rat-traps, and placing them on
the tops of the hogsheads, covered them
carefully with loose sugar Towards
evening loud wall was heard in the
curing house, and those who hastened
there beheld the ''headman"-the major
domo of the estate-in grievous state.
Inside his hand was as much sugar as it
could grasp, and ouside his hand was
rat-trap. Amidst yells and laughter they
formed procession, and lead him up
with dancing, whistling and beating of
tambourines to the ''busha- house, where
the next half hour was not u jubilant one
for himself. The following day he van
ished, and he was never seen again in
that mart of tho nottutrv
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22
TIE oUTGRoWTH OF Ia VAST ~
EXPERIENCE.

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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-07-22

Il is stated that bread is distributed in
Paris almost exclusively by women.
These come 10 she various bakehouseg at
$50 A. NJ, and spend about an hour in
brushing the long loaves with special
brushes When her load is cleaned OF
grit and dust the porteuse dc pain goes
her rounds TO her customers. Customers
who live in flats have their loaves propped
up against the door OF their apartment.
nhopkeepeIs, restauratcurs and other
customers who have the entrance 10 their
premises on the street find their quanta
Of the staff Of life leaning against their
front door when they take down their
shutters The wages of these bread
carriers vary from 30 10 60 cents per
diem, their work being generally over at
10 or II O'Clock in the morning
Milling World.